Blueberry-BubblyGum

March 2015

Welcome to Wikipedia. At least one of your recent edits, such as the edit you made to MEF International School Istanbul, did not appear to be constructive and has been reverted or removed. Although everyone is welcome to contribute to Wikipedia, please take some time to familiarise yourself with our policies and guidelines. You can find information about these at the welcome page which also provides further information about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia. If you only meant to make some test edits, please use the sandbox for that. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you may leave a message on my talk page. Thank you. Melcous (talk) 14:16, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

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I would also like to provide some advice regarding the MEF International School Istanbul. Subjects on Wikipedia should be covered by summarizing what secondary sources say about the subject. The MEF article currently only cites the school website, which is a primary source. This gives the impression of being promotional. Please do your best to ensure anything you state in the article (other than the most basic facts about the school, like number of students and location) is backed up by a reliable secondary source. Otherwise, it's possible the article will be deleted or much of its content removed. If you have questions about what I mean, feel free to ask here. If you are working on this for a class assignment, please also ask your instructor to leave a message here, at my talk page, or at the education noticeboard. Thank you! --Ryan (Wiki Ed) (talk) 13:42, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

MEF International School

Hi Blueberry, thanks for your message at my talk page. The issue with the article is not solely that you are relying on the one source. Other reasons include

• 1. that it is also that it is a primary source (the school's own website) which may not meet the critera of being a reliable source;
• 2. that you appear to have a conflict of interest;and
• 3. that the editing pattern suggests a number of students editing the school's page as part of a class assignment without following the guidelines for doing so.

Ryan has given you information above on how to deal with the latter issues. In terms of being able to edit the article, the current level of protection means only auto-confirmed users can edit it for the next week. This does not mean that in a week's time you should add back the changes you have previously made - all that will do is result in the same issues as before, including possibly having the page protected for a longer period, and/or some editors being blocked from editing. You should only edit the article if and when you have found reliable secondary sources which cite the information that you include in the article. Please have a read of some of the links I have given here and also Ryan has given above, as these will give you much more information. Also, note that when you leave someone a message as you did at my talk page, you should sign it by including four tildes (~) after what you write. Thanks Melcous (talk) 04:33, 25 March 2015 (UTC)